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Originally Posted by jgray
None of the available programs have everything I want yet, but FBReader is what I use on my netbook. It still has a ways to go with some display issues with certain formats, but it does read quite a few different formats.
You can choose to use the existing CSS from an ebook, or override it and set everything yourself. You can select font, size, margins, indent, line spacing, etc. I prefer the "traditional" progress bar vs a scrollbar in FBReader, which is also a choice. To go fullscreen, just hit the ENTER key. I also define the SPACEBAR as a "Large scroll forward" (next page). Hitting the SPACEBAR is easier.
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That's exactly what I came up with, after trying out half a dozen readers yesterday. I was surprised to find the concept so undeveloped, but I guess not many people would have wanted to read from a Windows machine before netbooks.
I've been testing it out with some freebie books, and I don't know whether it's the software or the files, but do ebooks usually preserve formatting like italics and spacing from the print editions? It's no biggie with what I'm reading now, but I'm thinking of some of Stephen King's books where he uses italics extensively, and occasional odd spacing to set things off. From what I've seen so far, I can't help but think we'd be better off with zipped images of the actual, physical pages displayed like .cbr files.
Dale, I'm running XP but the Intel display driver doesn't support rotation as far as I can tell. I believe there's a hack for it on the Wind forums, but I don't see why I would portrait-mode any app that needed more input than "next page," what with the keyboard being attached and all.